Blood Diamond
Blood Diamond
R | 08 December 2006 (USA)
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An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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Stometer

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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ChanBot

i must have seen a different film!!

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Nayan Gough

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Roman Sampson

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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muvi-fan-73

Tone & Story: The title 'It's a real story now' is a sentence that find its source in the statement released by Danny Archer to Maddy Bowen (a journalist) while Danny was about to die. He does it so that the story portrayed by Bowen to entire world, generates its height. Danny before was a selfish character who dint mind the lives of innocent people to gain wealth, but later he loses his life to save an African man and bring his family together. The story puts light on how anything valuable produced (diamonds here, in this movie) in lands of Africa becomes curse for its own citizens. Later in movie it's shown how the 'story' (it's a real story now) influences 40 nations to sign 'The Kimberley Process' to check conflicting diamonds (5/5).Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: Although the movie was not shot in Sierra Leone, Direction, Cinematography and Screenplay are very good (4/5).Music: Music is good. It goes well along with the tone (3/5).Acting: Acting is very good (4/5).Final Verdict: It is worth adding to your DVD collection [(4/5) (9/10)].

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aquauver

It is natural and maybe necessary that groom gives a bride a beautiful stone, namely diamond as a token of his love. But he never know it exists under millions death in Africa. Even child kill African to take this tiny stone. It is ridiculous.However, no one find a way to stop this disaster.Because he also exists under this disaster.

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sethbecker-43529

This is a powerful movie that will make you think deeply. Leonardo diCaprio gives a brilliant performance, don't be surprised if you find yourself in tears watching this film! It's a film that I think everyone should watch at some point, especially people who haven't had the opportunity to travel outside of the US.

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Veteransson

Blood Diamond Is directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai) and takes place in Sierra Leone. The movie follows two protagonists Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) and Danny Archer (Leonard DiCaprio), the former a fisherman, separated from his family by the civil war, and the latter a sly diamond smuggler. Solomon is being forced by the rebels to look for diamonds and stumbles on a pretty big one. When Archer finds out about the diamond, they form an unlikely partnership to help each other out: a diamond for Archer and a family for Solomon.Let's get the obvious out of the way first: the performances by DiCaprio and Hounsou are brilliant. Hounsou gives an overall restrained performance but knows exactly when and how to explode. DiCaprio is at least Oscar worthy, nails the foreign accent of his character and outshines in the subtle portrayal of his emotions. The best parts of the movie take place when those two characters are together, the chemistry works and provides us with thrilling and funny scenes. The movie is one big, epic adventure through the country of Sierra Leone. The civil war that's raging in the country ensures a constant menacing atmosphere. The violence is brutal: wives and children are being butchered, hands and arms are being chopped, the rebels know no mercy. When a little boy tries to hide a diamond while working for the rebels and the leader (Captain Poison, played by David Harewood) notices, this menacing atmosphere surely raises the tension.The movie also tries to convey a message about the materialism in the first world. Everybody wants diamonds, but doesn't really care where they come from. When journalists write about it, people care for a minute, but nothing changes. When Solomon naively asks journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly) if people would come help when she publishes her story, she cynically laughs and says 'no'. The movie could have benefited from delving deeper into this materialism and ignorance towards the state of affairs in the countries supplying their gadgets that they so badly want but not need. Blood Diamond takes you on a at times fun, and at times shocking, devastating ride through a devastated Sierra Leone. The conclusion of the movie is satisfying and the great soundtrack surely helps with that. Being 2 hours and 23 minutes long, there were surely some sequences that didn't really add much to the story and could have been left out. Also, I wonder if this movie would have been as interesting without the charismatic Hounsou and DiCaprio.

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